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Music since 1945 : issues, materials, and literature

by: Schwartz, Elliott, 1936-2016

Publication date: 1993

Topics: Music 20th century History and criticism, Music 20th century Analysis, appreciation, Music theory History 20th century, Music -- 20th century -- Analysis, appreciation, Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism, Music theory -- History -- 20th century, Musique -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique, Théorie musicale -- Histoire -- 20e siècle, Musique -- 20e siècle -- Analyse et appréciation, Music theory, Music

Publisher: New York : Schirmer Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

xviii, 537 pages : 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-496), discography (p. 497-510) , and index

1. Composers and audiences -- 2. Precedents and influences: music from 1890-1945 -- 3. New ways of listening: the "loudspeaker revolution" -- 5. New concepts and tools -- 5. The early postwar years -- 6. Pieces for study I -- 7. "Order" and "chaos" -- 8. The electronic revolution I: tape composition and early synthesizers -- 9. Multimedia and total theater -- 10. Texture, mass, and density -- 11. Non-western musical influences -- 12. Pieces for study II

13. Collage and quotation -- 14. The resurgence of tonality -- 15. New views of performance: space, ritual, and play -- 16. Process and minimalism -- 17. The electronic revolution II: computers and digital systems -- 18. Pieces for study III -- 19. Notation, improvisation, and composition -- 20. Composers and national traditions -- 21. Pieces for study IV: a panorama of works by genre